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Introduction
Hi Folks! A surprise box from Thermaltake showed up today, inside was (among other things) BlacX 5G HDD Dock! This intrigued me as I have quite a few USB3 motherboards but no USB3 devices at all. Now I have one to review! This made me happy.
Anyway, a little bit about Thermaltake:
Thermaltake has been around for a while, as the name suggests they started off in heatsinks, over the years they've made some damn good heatsinks too. My personal favorite was the Big Typhoon, not only was it good then, but it's still good, mine kept my 4+ghz 980x nice and cool.
More recently they have branched out into other fields, cases, fans, power supplies, accessories, all kinds of stuff!
Milestones
| 1999 |
Thermaltake Technology Co., Ltd. is founded with net capital of $10 million (NT). The American branch of the company is established at the same time based in Southern California.
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| 2000 |
Engineered and manufactures the world's first turbine cooler Golden Orb for Intel Pentium and AMD Athlon Series processors. Establishes business relationships with more than 30 agents in Europe to generate sales in the region.
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| 2001 |
Subsidiaries TT Hongzhan and Hwazhan are formed in Beijing to enter the cooler market in China and establish sales relationships with local distributors. Unveils all-copper cooler Volcano 7, to be adopted by AMD and Intel. Recognized as Intel's foremost premier cooler solution provider in Asia Pacific.
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| 2002 |
Establishes production plant in Guangdong, China. Headquarter in Taipei successfully obtains ISO-9001. Launches the "COOLall YOUR LIFE" marketing campaign to further broaden brand recognition. Designs the 1st-generation Xaser Series chassis, renowned for its breakthrough design and innovative features.
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| 2003 |
France, Australia, and Japan branches offices are set up to meet the needs of local markets and further increase regional sales. Production plant in Dongguan, China receives ISO-9001 recognition. Unveils the 3rd-generation external water-cooling cooler that monitors water temperature.
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| 2004 |
Restructuring of the company in correspondence to the global scale it has grown into: reorganization of patent, channel, chassis, power supplier & computer accessories, and industrial design departments to strengthen organizational management and reinforce our commitment to research and development.
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| 2005 |
Establishes Thermaltake Europe B.V. in Nerthlands to support Europe market and their distribution channel.
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| 2006 |
Thermaltake raises the capital of NT 350 million and plans Initial Public Offering (IPO) in Taiwan.
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| 2007 |
Thermaltake officially announces IPO and begins trading on December 12th in Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSEC) under ticker symbol “3540” with $420 million (NT) in net capital.
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| 2008 |
Thermaltake announces its strategic entry into the Server/Industrial PC market with three major product lines: Rackmount Chassis, Server Fixed & Redundant Power Supply and Server CPU Cooling Thermal Management Solutions. |
In this review, we'll be taking a look at the Thermaltake BlacX 5G USB3 HDD Dock. As the name suggests, it's a HDD docking station that supports full USB 3.0 standards "super speed" with a maximum theoretical throughput of 4.8Gbps (but we all know it's much less than that). Let's see how well the Thermaltake BlacX 5G can really perform.
We'll be testing it on our test rig, which is comprised of the following components .... Gigabyte Z68X-UD3-B3, Intel Core i7 2600K (LGA1155) at 4.1ghz, G.Skill Ripjaws X 2133MHz 2x2gb kit, Sapphire Radeon HD 5830, Samsung Spinpoint F1 750GB SATA for testing ... all powered by a beefy Silverstone Strider 1000w.
Onward to the BlacX 5G!
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